A new book from the author of A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage, following Lalla Rook, who is now the sole owner of a tech company and whose ambition continues to rise.

In this darkly comic domestic thriller set in the North London suburbs of Hampstead and Muswell Hill, and the elite world of London tech companies and private schools, Lalla Rook, a highly organized and unnervingly focused mother of three, has only just overcome one set of seemingly insurmountable hurdles to reach the upper echelons of middle-class aspiration (Hampstead house, partner husband, three children, private school, own company, household staff), when her new life starts to unravel.

As she rubs up against an extraordinarily ruthless society that she’s not yet learned to navigate, and with well-resourced and self-protective enemies in every direction, she very soon finds that she’s in danger of losing everything she’s achieved—house, husband, company, children, school and even, it seems, her life. While some would admit defeat, and others stand and fight, Lalla takes a slightly different approach and decides that if she can’t have nice things, then no one will.

With childcare difficulties plaguing her, Lalla Rook must keep her past indiscretions (a body or two) hidden, while destroying those who have insulted her ability, intelligence or designer outfits, employing the only tools she trusts—leverage, deception, blackmail and an extraordinary to-do list.